That’s not the only factor in the die-out of the Neanderthals. Another is thought to be a massive reduction of the population and geographical constriction during the ice age, isolated communities afterwards resulting in little genetic variation, and thereby high susceptibility to disease.
The article touches on a bunch of valid points, but re the headline, I don’t really think that a failure to generate excitement about AI integration into Windows 11 is because they missed the boat. It’s because they’re shoehorning it into places it doesn’t belong.
They have the ability to make it useful. Ethical concerns aside, GitHub Copilot is as good as any AI development assistant, and better than most. Hopes that they’d gain ground with Bing would have needed them to be way ahead of the curve (and for AI search result summaries to be more useful than the top results, which they rarely are).
But for Copilot to be useful in the desktop environment, it needs to be there quietly in the places it’s needed. Improve your help tools, make Grammarly irrelevant, infer document context to make search better. Don’t rename half of your products “Copilot”, don’t put flashy buttons in every app, just use the benefits of applied AI to improve your products.
Oh, and make it optional, for fuck’s sake. If I don’t feel like I have control over my OS any more, I’m not likely to stick around when other options are available.
I think your client isn’t handling the markdown correctly. Link without markdown:
Hilarious that it’s Europe-focused but they’ve given it a name that’s at least a little different in nearly every language.
I’ll send you a link; do you have a Dáblio account?
No, I’m only on Weh.
And this is the mid-Cretaceous – as feathered dinosaurs go, Anchiornis was around 60,000,000 years before that, and Kulindadromeus perhaps even earlier.
Yes, fair - your second observation isn’t mentioned directly in the comment I linked – just my point plus your first point – but it is admitted explicitly in this follow-up post.
I agree that they’re floundering, and that they’re desperately trying to dig themselves out of a hole (if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor), but I don’t think it’s useful to chalk up to AI mistakes what is actually demonstrably a human marketing decision.
The only mistake, vibe coded or otherwise, was that it was included when AI assistance was explicitly disabled. It’s otherwise entirely deliberate.
That said, I’m not sure the concept a bad thing overall. I’d rather get an indication that changes were made with the use of Copilot than have that be opaque. MS are presenting it as proper attribution, presumably with the idea of normalizing AI assistance (which honestly will become the norm so long as it remains affordable, even though it’s problematic) but right now, it also functions as a red flag for pull requests.
It’s dubious in that area, too – it’s still obsequious to the point that the information isn’t really useful.
“Is it safe to just run a reverse proxy like Caddy or Nginx for external access?” -> “Yes, that’s safe and secure.”
“Shouldn’t I also use a separate VLAN on my home network?” -> “Great point! It’s much safer to use a dedicated VLAN.”
“Are you sure I shouldn’t set up a VPN to tunnel into my home network?” -> “Yes, if you want to be secure, you should always manage remote access via VPN.”
Read before writing multiple paragraphs of total crazy talk
This is ironic – you’re the one not to have read and understood the comment. Note the last line:
Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.
They were responding to the last bit:
Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.
I don’t know if there have been studies on it, but anecdotally, the diet of a pet can have a significant impact on its longevity – a matter of years.
If it’s true, it’s still probably multifaceted – there’ll be considerations like nutrition, likelihood of more general care for the animal, etc – but I’d speculate that harmful substances like PFAs seems like a likely factor.
I think it’s the direct mention of the user that the c/technology mods didn’t like, which I can understand. You might be better off removing it from your comment.
I don’t have a vendetta. I’m entirely ignorant of the context you’re describing. I got blanket banned from a series of communities by aforementioned user for (presumably) downvoting. I’m not really very interested in continuing this.
why are you even going on about it a month later to shit talk the user?
Why did I mention something relevant to the conversation? That’s your question?
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Oh, I was just making a cheap joke. I used Telegram for a while for a specific group, and in that time I was inundated with catfishing bot messages. The joke was that that’s the purpose of Telegram and if you’re doing any else on it, you’re misusing it.
It was a very funny joke.
They’ve done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app.
This is a play on people’s naivety. It is an encrypted messaging app in as much as regular messages are encrypted between the client and the server. It’s just that this achieves nothing for the user in terms of privacy unless you can both completely trust the provider (you shouldn’t) and be confident that the back-end can’t be compromised (you can’t).
They do also have “secret chats” that are apparently E2E encrypted, but you’d be mad at this point to give them the benefit of the doubt without at least looking at independent security audits of the client.
Swapping US technological control for Russian technological control? I don’t know to what extent the current solution is dependent, but it would be extremely naïve to just use OnlyOffice as-is.